Re: Question regarding proto-albanian evolution of the PIE cluster

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > First, I think that clusters -*k't-, -*kWt- and -*kt- have been
> > assimilated in -*tt-, -*tt- and -*tt- to ende later in

simple /t/

> > (cf. Italian <notte> 'night' from Lat. nox, -tis).
> > Albanian demonstrative pronouns, as we have once discussed in
> > Cybalist, are compound form of PIE *au- + *so > ai 'he', *ko(m)

+ *so

> >> kuj > ky 'this', *au- + saH2 > ajo 'she' and *ko(m) + saH2 >

kujo >

> > këjo > kjo 'this' and *au- + to > atë 'that' and *kom- + to >

kutë >

> > këtë 'this'. Plural forms are derived from *au-taH2 >

ato 'those',

> > masculine form *au-+*to > ata 'those' and *kom- + taH2 > kuto >

këto

> > etc., due to *s > j, *aH2 > *a: > o etc.
> >
> > Konushevci
>
>
> that will imply you sustain there is no connection between Alb.
> demonstrative pronoun and the
> locative adverbs "atje", "këtu" and I will wonder if there is none.
>
>
> Ale

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No, as well the adverbs <atje> 'there, yonder' and <këtu> 'here' are
compound of *au-, reduced regulary to /a/ and second part -tje (cf.
<tutje> 'away', that, according to Pedersen, is contracted form of
<teje>, ablative of <ti> 'you', literaly 'away of you'). Also
<këtu> 'here' is a conmpound of *ko(m)- + tu (adverbial form *tu,
cf. Skt <tu> 'now, but'). Antonym <atu> 'there'.

Konushevci